We played on XL without dungeons. Everything went according to plan. By week 4, I already had 3 secondary towns and everything was built in my main town, except for the upgraded bears (of which I only had 3). Just in case, I bought them on day 7. As it turned out, it was a good decision - a month of plague appeared!
Therefore, instead of starting to take utopias, I went to "collect some Pandora boxes," and along the way, I cleared the passage through the teleport, which, as it turned out, leads directly to the blue player. I had to quickly eliminate the blue player. I must say, he didn't put up much resistance :).
Thank you for the game!